Improvement in safety-pockets



Leeuw/EAR.

Safety-Pockets.

No.1 2739, Patented May 28,3872.

' EEICE.

LEWIS GOODYEAR, OF TRUMANSBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY-POCKETS.

Speeication forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,339, dated May 28, 1872.

v SPECIFICATION ron AN IMPROVEMENT 1N SAEETY-IocKETs. Y Specification describing certain Improvements in Safety-Pockets, invented by LEWIS GOODYEAR, of Trumansburg, in the county of Tompkins and State of New York.

My invention consists of the introduction into watch-pockets of a piece of elastic webbin g or other similar material, so attached to said pocket, in connection with a short seam at the upper right-hand corner of said pocket,

as to prevent the watch from falling or being jerked out of the pocket either accidentally or by design.

Figure 1 represents the piece of elastic webbing or othersimilar material, about threequarters of an inch wide. Fig. 2 represents an outside view of the back of the pocket, showing the seam or point of attaching the lower end of Fig. 1 to Fig. 2, as represented by the line a a; also the seam c c at the upper right-hand corner of the pocket. Fig. 3 represents an outside View of the front of the pocket, showing the seam or point of attaching the upper end of Fig. 1 to Fig. 3, as represented by the line b b,- also the seam c c at the upper right-hand corner of the pocket. Fig. 4 represents an outside view of the pocket as completed, with the watch inserted therein. Fig. 5 represents the seam c c at the upper right-hand corner of the pocket, uniting the outer and inner folds of the pocket, and forming a stay or shoulder, which-in connection with Fig. 1, attached by the seam aa to Fig. 2, or the inner fold of the pocket, and. the seam b b to the outer fold of the pocket, as shown in Fig. S-keeps and secures the watchin the pocket.

By applying the thumb of the left hand to Fig. lit yields sufficiently to permit the watch to be readily taken out for use.

The watch may be put in the pocket with either hand, by entering the watch in the pocket and gently passing it by the webbing or Fig. l, which will. yield sufficiently to let the watch pass in when it is fast.

The dimensions of the pocket should be governed by the size of the watch, the depth being about twice the diameter of the watch, the width about one and a half times the diameter thereof, and the right-hand edge of the webbing should be about three-fourths the diameter of the watch lfrom the right-hand side of the pocket as situated in the vest.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The safety-pocket herein described, having the elastic strap u t b b secured to the back and front, as shown, and arranged in reference to the top-corner seam c c, as set forth,

and for the purpose mentioned.

LEWIS GOODYEAR. l/Vitnesses:

WILLIAM AUsTIN, HENRY P. GnrswoLn. 

